WHEN John Gurdon was 15, he ranked last out of the 250 boys in his grade at biology. He also came in last for every other science subject. His teacher wrote in a       : “I believe he has ideas about becoming a       ; on his present showing this is quite foolish.”
Luckily, the teacher’s words didn’t        Gurdon’s love for science. He kept working hard. He went to lab earlier and left        than anyone else.
On Oct 8, 2012, 64 years later, the British professor        the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka had contributed to the research and therefore        the award.
Gurdon got the honor        his research into cells and cloning. When he was studying at Oxford, he did some        on cells. He took a cell from an adult frog, moved its       , and put them into an egg cell. The egg cell then        into a clone of the adult frog. His research        for the first time that every cell in the body contains the same genes.
At that time, many people        accept Gurdon’s idea. But later it helped to        Dolly the sheep in 1996, the first cloned mammal in history. It also led to important findings in the        use of cells. For example,        from someone’s skin can turn into any type of tissue in the body. This is good news for those        who have diseased or damaged tissue.
Gurdon always remembers the        he had when he was 15. He even put the report on his desk as a daily        to himself.
“When you have       , like an experiment doesn’t work, it’s nice to remind yourself that perhaps you are not so good at your job and the teacher may be       ,” he said.
However, the facts suggest Gurdon is pretty good indeed.

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